A man was arrested by Florida police on Sunday for allegedly shooting two people he thought looked like Palestinians.
Police said on Saturday, surveillance video captured Mordechai Brafman’s car driving south on Pine Road before making a U-turn at 48th Street where a vehicle with two men was stopped, according to a local NBC affiliate
Brafman,27, drove past the vehicle and stopped directly in front of the them. He then got out of his car and stayed on the driver side and opened fire at the vehicle with the two men as it drove past him.
Authorites say the vehicle was hit 17 times and the two people inside were each shot once suffering minor injuries.
One of the victims suffered a gunshot wound to his left shoulder, while the second victim suffered a graze wound to his left forearm.
In the interview room Brafman told detectives that he was driving his truck and saw “two Palestinians and shot and killed both,” the report said.
Brafman was charged with two counts of attempted second-degree murder.
Police told Al Jazeera that the men are a father and son visiting from Israel.
Ari Rabey, the victim who was shot in the shoulder wrote on Facebook after the incident that his dad had been wearing a yarmulke on his head when they were driving in the car, according to the Times of Israel.
Surveillance video showed the Rabeys driving to a condo building to seek help. One of the men can be seen with blood on his shoulder.
